Makhfi Quotes & Sayings

I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties. — George Shearing

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit. — Douglas Adams

Heaven is the feeling of hand warmers on sore nipples. — Cassi Clark

Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me. But they all seem to. It doesn't matter what country they're in or what religion they claim. They all want to control women. They want to control how we dress. They want to control how we act. They even want to control the decisions we make about our own health and our own bodies. Yes, it is hard to believe but even here at home we have to stand up for women's rights and we have to reject efforts to marginalize any one of us, because America has to set an example for the entire world. — Hillary Clinton

It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth. — Horace

To love is not to be fragile; it is to be unlocked and open. And when something is open, other things can come in. — Susan Meissner

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in. — Wilson Mizner

Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage. — Woody Allen

People know me from a hockey game, from an earthquake, from the O.J case. — Al Michaels

To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions. — George Santayana

Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen. — A.A. Gill

Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead. — T. S. Eliot

We'll meet again in Lvov, my love and I ... Tatiana hums, eating her ice cream, in our Leningrad, in jasmine June, near Fontanka, the Neva, the Summer Garden, where we are forever young. — Paullina Simons

I always like to have an atlas just so that I can find things out. It's always good to have an almanac; those sort of things. — Dave Matthews